Feb 2, 2023
View from the Battlefield
Editorial Board
They are doubling down and passing laws in red states that give them even more protection from justice-seeking voters.
The number of first responders who participated in the savage beatdown of Tyre Nichols is growing. Five cops and three Memphis FD personnel have been fired;…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
The fact that she was asking for forgiveness for the police officers who brutally took the life of her son, and praying for their families, while simultaneously advocating for justice was indeed a surreal and inspirational moment for people across racial lines. It was a clarion call demanding that justice be served.
The death of Black people at the hands of law enforcement has become so commonplace and routine that many of us who are Black Americans have…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
Columnist
If you follow this country’s national pastime, the male soap opera called the NFL, then you understand that two Black men as the starting “Signal Callers” is a monumental achievement in Black people’s struggle against White superiority and dominance in all matters, both large and small.
As an endangered breed, Black men have just experienced a long-time-coming moment in our story. ...and one giant step forward, six n' a half steps backward,…
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Commentary
I'm gonna check up. I'm gonna check up on this Freedom Train.
Note: This is a poem Langston Hughes wrote about the Underground Railroad which Harriet Tubman conducted. I read in the papers about the Freedom Train I…
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Color of Law
Executive Editor
His ritual burning and burying of the confederate flag every Memorial Day was an example of the artist engaged in protest. But he did not leave it there.
Of the many people we lost in 2022, one whose passing flew under the radar was multimedia artist, mathematician, Afrofuturist, writer, producer and activist John Sims,…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
It’s true that the number of uninsured Americans has dropped to an all-time low. But that fact obscures the failures of our patchwork, profit-driven health care system.
Here’s one of many indicators about how broken the United States health care system is: Guns seem to be easier and cheaper to access than treatment…
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